Fast food & video games

[S1500]

I just saw a commercial for KFC doing some sort of Guitar Hero promotion. Once again fast food & games have come together.

So what's the history of fast food & video games promotions?

There was Burger King & 2 xbox titles, McDonald's & Atari. The failed Rax & GTA:San Andreas promo(The "Grove street" meal). Am I missing anything else?

[godslabrat]

I just saw a commercial for KFC doing some sort of Guitar Hero promotion. Once again fast food & games have come together.

So what's the history of fast food & video games promotions?

There was Burger King & 2 xbox titles, McDonald's & Atari. The failed Rax & GTA:San Andreas promo(The "Grove street" meal). Am I missing anything else?

 

McD's had their Mario toys.

 

BK used to have their "Kids Club" cartoons, in which one character was decked head to toe in video game gear.

[pinball22]

There was a Taco Bell and N64 thing sometime in 1997-98, and sometime more recently a Sega and Burger King thing. There are probably tons more.

[fiddlepaddle]

I've found a bunch of Sega Sonic toys, and some simple LCD Sega video games from McDonalds Happy Meals, around mid to late 90's I think.

[CGQuarterly]

Burger King had 3 XBox titles, not 2. They also had those Activision handheld LCD games around 2005.

 

Chris

[slosu]

I remember Pizza Hutt dishing out demo PS1 games with every large pizza back in the late 90's. I still have a couple somewhere.

 

 

 

Steve

 

http://www.xanga.com/Atari_Man

Edited November 2, 2008 by slosu

[shadow460]

I remember Pizza Hutt dishing out demo PS1 games with every large pizza back in the late 90's. I still have a couple somewhere.

 

 

 

Steve

 

http://www.xanga.com/Atari_Man

 

I've actually got both of the demo discs they released. Neither one of mine is a winner, though. IIRC, you could just ask for the discs before you ordered and they'd hand 'em out to you. The prize was $500,000.

 

Disc 1 has a Big New Yorker commercial on it and right now I am hungry...

It has playable demos of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Ape Escape, Crash Team Racing, Final Fantasy VIII, and Cool Boarders 4.

There is no ad on Disc 2, but there's an audio plug for a Stuffed Crust Pizza. The demos are The Next Tetris, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, Gran Turismo 2, Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (this one doesn't seem to be playable), and Sled Storm.

 

I should probably kick around the demos for FF8 and GT2. I don't think I ever played them. My first wife purchased a couple of Spyro games, though, and these demos may be the first Spyro she played.

Edited November 2, 2008 by shadow460

[AtticGamer]

McDonalds offered LCD Sega games too. I may post a pic of the one I have.

[dangeraaron]

Haha, Anyone remember McKids? What a Mario rip-off

[mbd30]

Haha, Anyone remember McKids? What a Mario rip-off

 

There was also "McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure" and "Global Gladiators" for Sega Genesis.

 

They should have made a Taco Bell chihuahua game during the peak of that particular mascot's popularity.

[PressureCooker2600]

Haha, Anyone remember McKids? What a Mario rip-off

 

That game was actually a quality game. Above average when it came to platformers on the NES.

 

I like it alot. Never got around to beating it, though.

[shadow460]

Also in the early 2000's, McDonald's had those game kiosks for the kids. They each had an N64 in them.